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syntax mandarin quantifiers

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Source to look up pronunciation of phonetic script

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Is there evidence for expletives (ie. dummy subjects) in Proto-Germanic? What can we say about the situation in IE?

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Can u tell me about the development of the study of language saussurian dichotomies? [closed]

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Is there a phonological division in Slavic languages as important as the La Spezia-Rimini line? If not, is there a most important partition anyway?

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What are these conputational statistics concerning French words? [closed]

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Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate in english?

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Ambiguity in “Joe and David discussed his plans for tomorrow evening” [duplicate]

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Reflexivity of similarity-in-a-respect

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What part of speech is a phoneme?

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English word that uses the Hebrew ר sound?

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(Latin) spondeo > (Spanish) esposas?

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What does “Krita” mean? [closed]

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What kind of features support the claim that Slavic languages are closer to Germanic languages than to Indo-Iranian languages?

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What is Hierarchy of Projections?

syntax theoretical-linguistics

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Evidence that ø and œ are separate phonemes in French?

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How do you determine a New Letter's sound? [closed]

phonology cases

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Language for which there is no suppletion for : first-one, premier-un. And the Hebrew case

hebrew numbers suppletion

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Why is direct affix borrowing generally thought to be impossible?

sociolinguistics borrowing affixes

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What's the term for finding an attestation of a word that predates the earliest known one?

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[a̟]: advanced front vowel?

ipa transcription

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How do I know if ECM happens in a foreign language?

syntax syntax-trees cases theta-role

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Is order of To Be = Hayah, Hoveh, Yihyeh or is it Yihyeh, Hoveh, Hayah the normal tense in Hebrew?

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Are there any known linguistic patterns that cause the verb “have” to take on this additional function?

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After movement, do theta roles stay the same after wh-movement and verb raising?

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Diacritic connecting c and t

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Is Indra grammatically irregular?

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How common object/subject case being applied to determiners/demonstrative/articles instead of nouns?

cases determiners

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Looking for contrastive feature hierarchies for Irish, Manx and/or Scottish Gaelic

phonology phonemes irish trees gaelic

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Abessive case in Finnish

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What is the phenomenon of wrong sticky memory?

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Is it possible to produce a list of syntactic rules for a language?

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What is the name of the formulation where you specify sentence parts

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What do you call double consonants that are not affricates?

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Is English grammar teaching tradition rooted in Latin?

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What do the numbers 206.835, 1.015, 84.6, 0.39, 11.8, 15.59 mean in the Flesch reading ease and Flesch-Kincaid grade level formulas?

syntax grammar applied-linguistics

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How much do linguistic similarities and differences affect race relations? [closed]

lexical-relations anthropology

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Is “Since + clause” a noun clause or adverbial clause in this phrase?

syntax clauses

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